Between Representation and Regulation: Union Strategies on Non-Standard Employment in Selected Industries in the Philippines

• Main Author: Serrano, Melisa R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Non-standard employment; non-standard workers; precarious work; trade unions; Philippines
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/apssr/vol17/iss3/7; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/apssr/article/1139/viewcontent/RA6_Serrano_20030818.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

As elsewhere, the incidence of non-standard employment is increasing in the Philippines amidst declining union density rates for the last 15 years. This twin phenomenon has posed challenges to trade unions’ structures and their understanding of representation. Based on the author’s survey of union s...